NATION DATELINES

Compiled from Examiner wire reports

Published 4:00 am, Monday, September 18, 1995

AH: Saudi princess's maid flees beating Orlando, Fla. A maid to a Saudi Arabian princess who alleges the princess falsely accused her of theft and then beat her in a Disney World hotel room is negotiating with the Saudi government for compensation, her lawyers said.

The maid became the focus of what had the potential to erupt into an international incident when she fled from her room at the luxury hotel and sought help from the Orange County deputy sheriffs.

The maid told the deputies that her employer, Princess Maha Al-Sudairi, struck her face and kicked her ribs on Sept. 5, when the princess discovered that some of her jewels and cash were missing from a hotel room trunk. The maid, Naima Abakr, 32, was treated at an Orlando hospital and released.&lt;